On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:29:05PM -0600, Tracy J. Di Marco White wrote:
> As a system administrator, I consider RSA based authentication not so much
> of a plus. I manage systems with up to 45K users, and we mandate decent
> passwords. Using RSA passphrase authentication allows people to circumvent
> our password rules, and in fact allows them to choose to have no passphrase
> at all. We use kerberos, and kerberos encrypted telnet offers some moderate
> amount of encryption.
You could certainly disable RSA-based authentication.
But having RSA-based authentication for the host is definitely better than
no authentication... but, yes, I'd much rather see a "Kerberos for everything"
option available for SSH.
The biggest problem for large deployments of SSH is public key harvesting
and distribution. Kerberos would solve that.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>